Week 4 Aug. 31 - Sept. 3

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Week 4
8/31 – 9/3
Life Stages and Events
Simple Past Regular Verbs; Life Stages vocabulary
Paragraph 4: My Favorite Place
Quiz: Prepositions of place/location;
Spelling/Dictation and Vocabulary quizzes: Library vocabulary
Writing about an Important Place
Conversation:
  • Where do you go when you are very happy?
  • Where do you go when you are very sad?
  • Is there a room in your home where you always feel comfortable?
  • Or is there a natural place, such as in the forest or mountains, at a lake or in a park, where you like to go to?


Paragraph Questions:

  1. What is your favorite place?
My favorite place is …

  1. Where is it located?
  2. What can you see there?
  3. How did you find it or how did it become your favorite place?
  4. When did you find it or when did it become your favorite place?
  5. Have you shared your favorite place with anyone or spent time there with someone special? If yes, with whom? When? If not, why not?
  6. How does this place make you feel? Why?


Instructor's Sample Paragraph: An Important Place

My Cozy Living Room

My favorite place is my living room in my house because it is a place with a lot of activity. It is a typical living room with a TV, couch, chair, coffee table, and bookshelf, but the people inside make it special. My daughter, husband, and I spend a lot of time there. It is the place where I spend my weekends talking with my family, watching movies, getting the latest news, and reading. My living room has been my favorite place for a long time now. I have rarely shared this place with others outside my immediate family. This place makes me feel warm, cozy, and relaxed, and that is why it is my favorite place to be in the whole world.
Biography PowerPoint:

Simple Past Tense:


Regular Verbs (put on your headphones or turn on your computer's speakers to hear):


Here are some links to websites for practicing regular verbs:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/michel.barbot/hotpot/prononciation/ed.htm
http://www.isabelperez.com/pastendings.htm
http://evaeaston.com/pr/t-d-Id-pattern.html (wait for this to download)

Irregular Verbs PowerPoint (put on your headphones or turn on your computer speakers to listen):



Links to practice irregular past tense verbs online:
Flash quizzes on irregular forms: **A - B** **C - D** **E - F** **G - H** **K - M** (1)
Flash quizzes on irregular forms: **P - S** **S** **More S** **T - W** (1)
Flash review quizzes on irregular forms: **Quiz 1** **Quiz 2** (1)
**A Disastrous Day** Flash quiz on irregular forms (1)
**My Beard** Flash quiz on irregular forms (1)
**A Little Accident** Flash quiz on irregular forms (1)

Links to practice past tense online:
Flash quiz on **regular/irregular verbs.** (1)
**A Birthday Party:** Past tense questions (1)


Also try Part Self Tests Self, Self Test II:
• **Section One**
• **Section Two**


For grammar, we'll also review in/on/at prepositions of time. Here is the PowerPoint:
In+On+At+for+Time.ppt

Here are some online exercises:
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/230.html
http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.time.i.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/time_prepositions_1.htm
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/words/activities/prepositions_time.html